Pragmatic Play · 2025 · tested 2026-09-12
5 Lions Megaways 2
Explore the 5 Lions Megaways 2 demo alongside a free spins review in which three lions shared one multiplier and paid USD 40 on a single winning way.
Three lions shared one 8x multiplier in round 593, turning USD 5 into USD 40. That complete feature round paid USD 236.10.
measured over 10,000 spins · 50 buys
Is 5 Lions Megaways 2 worth playing?
quick answerRecorded RTP for 5 Lions Megaways 2 was 88.11% across 10,000 USD 2 spins, compared with a declared 96.50%. Natural free spins appeared 16 times; the separate set of fifty USD 200 regular purchases returned USD 8,372.10. Every selectable bonus used the 25-spin option, so these results do not rank the other free-spin choices.
Test card
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.50% |
| RTP measured | 88.11% (95% CI 70.2–106.1) |
| Hit frequency | 22% · every 4.64 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 32 / 4.65 |
| Median hit | 1.20x |
| Max win (base game) | 200.8x · spin 8783 |
| Free spins, natural | 16 · every 625 spins · mean 120.7x |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 97,623 |
Play 5 Lions Megaways 2 demo
same math as real play · demo balance
Bonus buy lab
50 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 0.84x · median 0.59x · 38 of 50 below price · best 2.83x · worst 0.13x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 33.3 / 25–46 |
| Retriggered | 98% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
- Spent
- USD 10,00050 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 8,372.1083.72% · CI95 64–104%
- Net
- −USD 1,627.90−8.1 buys
- Break-even or better
- 12 / 5024%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 5 / 5010%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~625 spins
One buy costs the same as 100 base spins. Natural bonuses arrived once per 625 spins in this run and paid an average of 120.7x the bet; bought bonuses averaged 84x the bet. These are different entry costs, not a prediction of which route will pay more.
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 106 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 4415 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 4617 |
One run, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
9 rules screens from the game
A winning way needs matching symbols on consecutive reels, beginning with reel 1. Each of the 6 reels can show up to 8 symbols, giving a ceiling of 262,144 ways; the actual count changes with the reel heights. Winning symbols are removed and replacement symbols refill the reels, repeating the tumble while a win remains. A lion substitutes for ordinary symbols, and a randomly selected multiplier applies once to each winning combination containing a lion, even when that combination contains several lions.
Scatter colour determines the feature. At least 3 ordinary scatters award regular free spins; a mixed trigger containing a Super Scatter opens Super Free Spins, with 1–10 additional starting spins and a possible start at level 2. The selector offers 8 choices, including Mystery: the tested choice begins with 25 spins and wild multipliers of 2x, 3x, 5x or 8x, while the 5-spin choice uses 20x, 30x, 40x or 100x. A trigger made entirely of at least 3 Super Scatters instead starts Max Free Spins: 35 spins with a fixed 100x wild multiplier and no selection screen.
Level Up Coins fill a collection meter during free spins. Each group of 3 awards another 3 spins; the first three upgrades also remove the lowest available wild multiplier, leaving only the highest by level 4. Subsequent coin collections keep extending the feature without raising that remaining multiplier. Max Free Spins also adds 3 spins per 3 coins, but has no multiplier levels to climb.
Entry prices are 100x for regular free spins, 150x for Super or 500x for Mystery, which can select any of the three feature types. Ante changes the stake from 20 to 50 credits; the rules describe a sevenfold increase in natural feature chance, and this test left Ante off. A 96.50% theoretical RTP applies across the loaded version's modes; its rules rate volatility as medium and cap an ordinary round at 8,000x. Ordinary stakes span USD 0.20–240; the displayed USD 600 maximum includes Ante.
Megaways
Cascading reels
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Multiplier
Retrigger
Extra bet
Bonus buy
Bet range 0.20 – 600 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet 2.00
Gallery
4 frames from the test
Verdict
What the lions added, and what the extra spins costCoin extensions were frequent in the purchase series: 49 of the 50 bonuses exceeded their initial 25 spins. The median payout was USD 117, and 38 entries failed to recover the USD 200 price. The longest purchased feature, number 49, lasted 46 spins and paid USD 195.20. Regular purchases as a group lost USD 1,627.90.
Natural features were much less accessible, with 16 triggers across the 10,000-spin journal. The longest intervening stretch contained 1,663 spins without a trigger, between rounds 7381 and 9045. Round 148 delivered USD 1,479.20, the largest whole-round result, yet ordinary play still finished USD 2,377.30 down. This was a specific 25-spin selection test, with five Super triggers included in the natural series and no Max trigger.
Extra wild value accounted for most of the natural free-spin payout: USD 2,836.50 out of USD 3,863.10, or 73.43%. Those multipliers are shared across qualifying combinations rather than multiplied together for every lion. The fish combination in round 593 contained three lions on one way; its USD 5 unmultiplied award became USD 40 under a single 8x multiplier.
- Wild multipliers contributed USD 2,836.50 beyond the underlying natural free-spin symbol awards.
- A 200.8x return came from ordinary play, without a free-spin trigger.
- Regular purchases produced 138 verified three-spin extensions across the 50 entries.
- Bonus spacing reached 1,663 ordinary spins without a fresh trigger.
- An extra-long purchase still missed its price: 46 spins paid USD 195.20 for USD 200.
- Thirty-eight purchases fell short of their cost despite 49 features receiving extensions.
- Only the 25-spin option was sampled; the 7 other choices have no measured comparison here.
- Purchase 34 was the only bought feature to finish at its original 25 spins; it paid USD 33.60.
- Five natural entries were Super Free Spins, while all 50 purchases opened the regular feature.
- A base-game round at 8783 paid 200.8x without triggering free spins, exceeding 15 of the 16 complete natural feature rounds.
- The natural series recorded 42 coin extensions but only 32 multiplier-level advances: extra spins continued after the multiplier stopped improving.
Method & data
open data · closed rig10000 base-game spins at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 50 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x); mode: 25-spin selection (initial wild multipliers 2x, 3x, 5x and 8x), Super starting awards included, regular 100x purchases only on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.5%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-12.
The test rig recorded every round on the official demo server. Screenshots and video were captured in a separate browser session and are not part of the statistical samples. This release has completed automated data, content and page checks; human editorial review is pending. How we test →
| 2026-09-12 | 10,000 spins · RTP 88.1% |
FAQ
6 questions · answered from the logWould you buy the regular bonus after this test?
The regular 100x purchase returned less than it cost in 38 of 50 tests. At a USD 2 stake, each entry cost USD 200; the median payout was USD 117 and the combined return was 83.72%. These purchases all used the 25-spin option, with no purchase-series results for Super or Mystery.
Can three lions multiply a win three times?
Several lions can belong to a single winning way, but the chosen multiplier applies once to that combination. In round 593 of the 5 Lions Megaways 2 test, three lions helped form a fish combination worth USD 5 before multiplication. One 8x factor produced USD 40; the complete round, including its trigger, paid USD 236.10.
How rare were free spins in the demo test?
Ante was off throughout the 10,000-spin test, which produced 16 natural features: 11 regular bonuses and 5 Super bonuses. That is one trigger per 625 spins across this 5 Lions Megaways 2 journal. The longest internal gap was 1,663 non-triggering spins, so 625 describes the series average rather than a countdown to a bonus.
Can both RTP figures be right: 88.11% and 96.50%?
The two percentages describe different things: 96.50% is the loaded game version's theoretical RTP, while 88.11% is the return actually logged on USD 20,000 of ordinary stakes. Those spins paid USD 17,622.70. The estimated 95% interval for this sample was 70.16–106.07%, which includes the declared value; the lower observed result alone does not establish a fault in the game.
Do Level Up Coins stop helping at the top level?
Coins still award 3 additional spins for each group of 3 after level 4; only the removal of lower wild multipliers stops. The fifty regular purchases in this test produced 138 extensions and 112 multiplier-level advances. Purchase 49 reached 46 spins but returned USD 195.20 against a USD 200 entry.
Which free-spin choice was used for these results?
Every regular or Super bonus selected the 25-spin choice, whose initial wild multipliers are 2x, 3x, 5x and 8x. Super entries add their own starting award; 5 occurred naturally in the 10,000-spin series. The other 7 choices were not tested as separate samples, and no Max Free Spins trigger occurred.
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